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A regional New South Wales Council admits it was negligent over is failure to identify elevated levels of uranium in local drinking water. The Tamworth Regional Council took two years to recognise that its own testing shows that uranium levels in several bores are almost twice that considered ...

Campaigners against a new coal mine near prime farming land on the New South Wales Liverpool Plains have cautiously welcomed the federal government's decision to continue to review the project. Environment Minster Greg Hunt granted conditional approval to the project last week but has now ...

Some of the fiercest critics of the new Shenhua mining project in New South Wales have begun meeting with lawyers to consider their next steps. Last week, the Federal Government approved the $1.2 billion open cut coal mine, which is intended for the rich agricultural area known as the Liverpool ...

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The Environment Minister told AM on Monday the government would look into an emissions intensity scheme to limit carbon output from the electricity sector. Two days later, he's denying he mentioned such as scheme and pledging not to introduce one....

Air pollution is a serious problem in many Chinese cites and throughout the countryside. In winter, with excessive emissions and calm winds, the pollution increases to a thick haze often reducing visibility to just 100 metres. It is estimated one third of the 6.5 million deaths from air pollution ...

The United Nations has described marine plastic pollution as a toxic time bomb. A report released today warns the sources of pollution are growing and uncontrolled - and are potentially affecting human health....

Residents of Katherine in the Northern Territory are afraid that preliminary test results showing contamination from toxic firefighting foam will leave them with the same problems as Williamtown in New South Wales, and Oakey in Queensland. The toxic foam previously used at Defence bases has ...